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Re: [udig-devel] EPL, UDIG and Geotools license
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I am very interested in this also. A few weeks ago I had a chat with a
guy that told me exactly the same thing. It is two thursdays that I
would like to talk about that in IRC and exactly two thursdays that I am
not able to attend. This discussion seems rather important to me.
Ciao
Andrea
Aleksander Bandelj probaly wrote:
> I found this discussion regarding EPL and LGPL licensed library
> (Hibernate), which states that LGPL and EPL are not compatible:
>
> http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/modeling-pmc/msg00305.html
>
> The discussion also links to list of compatible licenses
>
> http://www.eclipse.org/legal/EclipseLegalProcessPoster.pdf
>
> (second page, right)
>
> For an unmodified binary distribution, the
> following licenses are considered compatible
> as of the date of this Poster’s release:
>
> Apache Software License 1.1
> Apache Software License 2.0
> W3C Software License
> Common Public License Version 1.0
> IBM Public License 1.0
> Mozilla Public License Version 1.1
> Common Development and Distribution
> License (CDDL) Version 1.0
> BSD
> MIT
>
> Incompatible Licenses Include:
>
> GNU GPL 2.0
> GNU LGPL
> Sun Binary Code License Agreement
>
> As I interpret this discussion, this means that either:
>
> a) Geotools and UDIG have to be dual licensed (LGPL and EPL) to be
> distributed together with Eclipse platform. However, Geotools uses other
> libraries which are under LGPL, JTS for instance, so I don't know if
> such licensing is possible at all, even if Geotools and UDIG projects
> would be willing to consider it.
>
> b) Geotools and UDIG plugins must be downloaded by user and installed
> into Eclipse platform separately
>
> I am confused.
>
> -a
>
>
>
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